'hector' is a valid word in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning to annoy or intimidate someone through blustering talk or behavior. Example: The corporate executive hectored the employees about their poor performance.
It's like the team has spent the northern summer rearranging its collective hector protector, before getting knocked out with a punch to the face.
Nearly 60 years ago, the undergraduate Bennett was struck by the unfairness that memorable teachers – like the unforgettable Hector he placed in a state school in The History Boys – seemed to be concentrated in the private schools.
Just as American treasury secretaries needed to shout loudly about China's currency in order to appease a potentially protectionist Congress, so Beijing officials must hector Americans about their profligacy to assuage rising domestic fury about the losses China faces on its reserve holdings.
According to Mr Chang, the rich nations that now hector the poor on the importance of free trade, respect for intellectual property and hospitality to foreign investors broke all of those rules when they themselves were clambering up the development ladder.
That they no longer hector so loudly is welcome to many governments.
Grim stuff, yet the authors do not hector their readers.
Hector-Neri Castañeda, with his distinction between propositions and practitions, provides one notable exception.
Hector-Neri Castañeda [1975], influenced by Sellars [1966] maintained that intentions are a special species of internal self-command, which he calls "practitions".
See articleSir Hector Sants stepped down as head of global compliance at Barclays, a role that includes overseeing the bank's commitment to adhere to anti-corruption laws.
Hector Christie, 50, from Tapeley Park Lodge, Instow, in north Devon, was bailed to appear before central magistrates court on 13 July after allegedly vandalising the trial and surrounding property at the government-funded crop institute, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden.
Hector Sants, chief executive of the FSA, wants a pool of "contingent capital".
